Viagra May Save Wildlife?

Traditional Chinese medicines often rely on specific body parts from certain kinds of animals to treat common physical ailments, such as erectile dysfunction.

The harvesting of at least three species used in traditional impotence remedies dropped considerably during the late 1990s, coinciding with booming sales of Viagra, according to Frank von Hippel, a biologist at the University of Alaska in Anchorage, and his brother William, a psychologist at University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

The pair attributes some of the decline to the popular drug, but some wildlife activists remain skeptical of the link. (Full text here)